Improvement in cartridge-loading implements



Patented May 9,1876.

No.177,Q60.

N. PETERS, PHOTULITHOGRIPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

EDWARD H. DAVISON AND ALFRED BEAM, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARTRlDGE LOADING IMPLEMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,060, dated May 9, 1876; application filed March 31, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD H. DAVI- SON and ALFRED BEAM, both of New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Implements for Loading Cartridge-Shells, of which the following is a specification Our invention relates to an improved compound tool for capping, uncapping, and rainming in the process ot'loadingcartridge shells; and consists, first, in the peculiar construction of the uncapper and rammer; and, sec

' ond,in the complete device as a new implement.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is acentral and longitudinal section of an implement which embodies our invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, and Fig. 3 an end view, of the same.

Just under the head A the two arms are hinged or pinned together at thejoint a, so that the arms may be opened, as shown by broken lines in Fig. 1.-

In the arm C there is a shell-holding'socket, of a size that will readily admit the body of a shell, D, but smaller than the flange upon the head of the shell, so that it will be retained in the position shown in Fig.1. Upon the arm '13, and central with the socket in C, there is a downward projection or capper, b.

When it is desired to cap a shell, the shell 4 is placed in the socket, as shown in Fig. 1,

the cap placed upon its anvil, and by forcing the handles or arms B C together the projection I) will force the cap firmly in place.

The ends of the arms or handles B C, opposite-the joint (0, when together, form the cylindrical rammer E, the head A being ofa convenient form for the hand while using the rammer. Pivoted in one part of the rammer is the uncapper c.

WVhen the rammer is used for ramming or loading the shell, the uncapper c is turned inward, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and when itis desired to use it for removing an exploded cap, it is turned with its small end forward,

and the device run into the shell, the cylindrical rammer acting as a follower to guide the small end of the uncapper into the hole of the nipple or anvil, When pressure upon the head A will force the cap ofl', as shown in Fig. 2.

We pivot the uncapper c in grooves formed in the halves of the ram mer, and so that a part of it is in each half, as shown in Fig. 3, whereby it acts as a dowel-pin to cause said halves to coincide. We have shown this uncapper as turning over at right angles to the divisionf'aces of the manner; but it might be made to turn on the same plane as the face of the division, and be pinned to one half, and let into a recess in the other half, when it would act as a dowel; or. it may be slotted and slid endwise on a pin, so as to present its small end far enough for use, as shown, and also to withdraw it wholly within the rammer, and held in said positions by a lug on one-half 'of the manner, which will engage in a hole or the rear end of the uncapper to hold it outward, and in another hole or forward shoulder to hold it inward; but weprefer the construction first described and shown. 7

We are aware that a cartridge-shell capper consisting of handles jointed together, socket and projection, has been used prior to our invention, and we do not claim the same.

We claim as our invention- 1. The divided rammer E, in combination with the uncapper c, pivoted therein, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

2. The improved implement herein shown, consisting of the head A, arm C, provided with shell-holding socket, the arm B, provided with the capper b, the cylindrical divided rammer E, and pivoted uncapper c, all substantially as described.

EDWARD H. DAVISON. ALFRED BEAM. Witnesses:

LYMAN S. BURR, JAMES SHEPARD. 

